I don't know if it's been mentioned here, but some Prince videos are back on Youtube. I found "Automatic", "Sexuality", and some other 80s-era vids.

One of the comments said that Warner owns the rights to these vids and P can't take them off. I'm not sure if this is true or not, but the videos are there now as I'm writing this.

DerekH said:

cool thanks for the info, 1st I think

DerekH said:

The rights to the videos may or may not be owned by Warners. But rights in the music on the videos will likely give rise to payments due to the composer at the very least. Therefore, Prince could easily demand that YouTube make payment for each time his song is published (streamed) on their site.

YouTube doesn't operate this model and therefore will likely remove the videos.

I saw those videos too and grinned for a moment. I saved them on my favorites for the time being. I know they won't be around for too long. There is also another user posting the remixes of some of the songs as well. You know, my boyfriend made an interesting suggestion the other day about what Prince fans could do to prevent getting things deleted so fast. Apparently in the wrestling world (for the fans) users who upload videos to Youtube don't directly put the name of a specific clip or star's name. They use "codes" so the videos don't get deleted so soon. I guess there's some sort of honor policy, because no one rats on the person making the codes and such.

Weird, but interesting. I doubt it would work for this scenario.

Those videos are on most sites so it's really no big deal, they're not illegal.
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DerekH said:

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johno2 said:

Linking to unreleased material by Prince is a violation of the site rules.
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langebleu said:

If I were you,
I'd go tell.

Sheesh, do not link to youtube here!

take that down ASAP johno2! why do people keep doing that shit here?

sorry..... well this hole topic is a bit like my link saying prince is back on u tube which he isnt princes people just havent deleted them yet so if one of princes people so this topic this would to tell them that there are more prince videos on u tube.....

langebleu said:

You seem always 2 give the good advise Blueangel...."Thread already started", "linking is a violation 2 th rules": I give U an A....

The Art of Musicology on MTV is on there right now, it's an awesome live performance of musicology! Yay!

While, obviously there aren't as much Prince stuff as befrore,
at this moment there is a lot more than I would've thought.

Illustrator said:

Your Right !!

Let's hope it stays for a while. I couldn't find the Larry King interview anymore. I think that happened after it was posted on here.

I have seen some great clips on there. Interestingly enough, after he threatened to sue them. There is one now of Baby I'm A Star from the Grammy performance. Had never seen that one. It is awesome!